alt Hacker NewsYou said: "You can't design a data structure without knowing how you will use it."
But the whole discussion involves knowing how you will use it; the advocacy is for careful consideration of data structures (based on how you will use them) resulting in less pain when designing/choosing algorithms.
My point is that one doesn't follow the other. To design good data structures, you need to know how it'll get used (the algorithm).
> If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.
This is what I was responding to.